Ideas for Transformation
#73 Embodied Mythology Series 07: Owning the Shadow with Paul Rebillot
By RCG
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March 8th, 2009
• Recorded: March 8, 2007 •
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We are continuing our conversations with our teacher and friend Paul Rebillot on the topic of the Healing Theatre – the combination of acting and drama, mythology, gestalt therapy, and rituals. For more information about Paul and his work, please visit his website – Direct Impact Creativity.
In this episode, Paul is describing the structure called Owning the Shadow.
The topics covered in this talk are:
- What is the shadow?
- If there is no light, there is no shadow
- "We have met the enemy, and he is us"
- The shadow is "forbidden"
- Illuminating the Shadow
- My way of dealing with shadow is to illuminate
- Shadow is a tricky character – he escapes, moves back and forth
- Once you begin to recognize your shadow, it loses power
- Change the duel to the death (with the shadow) into a lover’s quarrel
- Looking at the Shadow
- Looking at the Shadow has to be approach step-by-step
- Shadow frequently appears in dreams
- People that keep appearing in your life whom you cannot stand
- Jokes – what we laugh at
- Revealing Shadow through Humor
- And things we cannot laugh at and take too seriously
- Anti-defamation (Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence)
- Distilling the qualities of shadow
- List 25 people that disturb us most in our lives
- Distilling 5 common qualities, drawing them and putting in the bag
- We are dragging the bag of parts of us that we were told is bad
- The Golden Shadow
- Acting out the characters
- Integrating the Shadow
- Creating a mask
- First of your face
- Then add bumps and colors
- Then have a costume party to enact the shadow completely, all out
- Gestalt work to integrate the shadow – dressing a partner into your shadow costume and see your own shadow
- By the end, love begings to happen for the shadow, which is really the answer
- Finally, a medicine wheel, to take the shadow with you on a spiritual level
- Creating a mask
- Examples of shadow integration
- A man recognizing his homosexual shadow
- Turing stories you tell about people to yourself into creative works
- Dealing with political shadow
- Take some action
- Look at the person you dispice and see where you are doing the same thing
- Talk about it to people
- Justice and Vengeance
- If become what you kill
- Parallels in the books and movies
- Harry Potter (book)
- The Matrix (movie)
- V for Vendetta (movie)
- "The Terrorist" (movie)
Technocrati Tags: Myth, Mythology, Hero's Journey, Lover's Journey, Owning the Shadow, Paul Rebillot
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